The 46th Junior National Football Championship for B C Roy Trophy 2009-10 will be played at Mandya, Karnataka from December 20th to January 10th.
The 30 participating states have been divided into eight cluster and will battle it out in the Preliminary Qualifying Round.
Kerala is clubbed along Uttarakhand and Manipur and will play their first game against Uttarakhand on December 23.
Opening day of the tournament will witness Meghalaya taking on Orissa, Chandigarh facing Himachal Pradesh, West Bengal playing Arunachal Pradesh, Jharkhand up against Maharashtra and Goa locking horns with Jammu Kashmir, an AIFF media release said here today.
The winner of each cluster will qualify for the quarterfinal round with eight teams being divided into two groups.
Source: AIFF
From the archive. First published on footballkerala.com on Tuesday 17 November 2009, restored from the site's 2012 database. Text as originally published.